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Default storing chopped onions in olive oil

> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:55 -0000, "Ophelia" > wrote:
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>>cybercat wrote:
>>> "Dave" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Hi ! First time posting... got a question:
>>>> Just curious if I'm the only person who chops up onions and stores
>>>> them in olive oil...
>>>> I have a small cafe and I wanted to find an alternative to frying the
>>>> onions to speed up service, so I tried leaving them in seasoned olive
>>>> oil in a tupperware container overnight...
>>>> the result is that it softens the onions, then when I toast the
>>>> sandwich the olive oil adds seasoning to the bread and a nice


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>>Eeeeeeeek noooooooooooooo! You can get botulism like that!!!!!!!!
>>

> Cite????
>
> After a less than exhaustive trawl, I find that you *might* get
> Botulism poisononing but then again, you *might* not.
> Jenks


He runs a cafe. In a commercial kitchen it depends on nothing you mention.
It is illegal. You can come off as stuffy as you like about it and it is
still illegal. You figure out why.
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